Labour category: 1663 books
by Joseph Anthony Rulli
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded during a labor demonstration near Haymarket Square. The ensuing gunfire and chaos brought a grisly end to what began as peaceful support for an eight-hour workday and led to the trial and execution of rally organizers. The incident also drew irrevocable attention to a...
by Port Robert
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Georgia Business Litigation, edited by Robert C. Port, is a onevolume, comprehensive guide to matters business litigators will encounter, including: officer, director, shareholder, partnership and LLC disputes; securities litigation; noncompete and trade secret issues; RICO; intellectual property...
Making Employment Rights Effective
Issues of Enforcement and Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
There has been an enormous expansion of individual employment rights in Britain but their practical impact in terms of delivering fairer workplaces can be questioned. Taking as its starting point the widespread acknowledgement of problems with the major enforcement mechanism, the Employment Tribunals,...
The University Against Itself
The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
During the last two decades, many U.S. universities have restructured themselves to operate more like corporations. Nowhere has this process been more dramatic than at New York University, which has often been touted as an exemplar of the "corporate university." Over the same period,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with...
The Swiss Vocational Education and Trainig Initiative India
Background, Concept and Results of the Pilot Project 2008 - 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
The demand for highly qualified professionals with practical vocational education and training is increasing worldwide. However, many countries do not have a vocational education and training system comparable to the scheme in Switzerland. Vocational education and training is usually provided in schools,...
by Evelyn Ellis, Philippa Watson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
EU Anti-Discrimination Law provides a detailed and critical analysis of the corpus of European Union law prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, and sexual orientation. It takes into account the changes brought about by the Treaty...
by Jason Foster, Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities in which they live. This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduction to injury prevention on the job. It offers an extensive overview of central occupational health and safety...
The Price of Progressive Politics
The Welfare Rights Movement in an Era of Colorblind Racism
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rights
movement across the United States, The Price of Progressive
Politics exposes the contemporary reality of welfare rights
politics, revealing how the language of colorblind racism undermines
this multiracial movement. Through in-depth interviews
with...
Assistance Benefits in Brazil
Changes and Challenges to the Exercise of a Constitutional Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This edited book focuses on the most controversial aspects of assistance benefits as mandated by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 - and the challenges that have merged since the approval, in 1993, of the Federal Act 8.742, also known as Organic Law of Social Assistance. This collection of essays...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
You probably think that learning about the Great Depression is depressing. But behind those sad facts are truths that will help your child get a better grasp of the world. History tells tales of people, their decisions and what resulted from their actions. Perhaps the facts about great depression are depressing but they teach us never to commit the same mistakes again.
Peasants on Plantations
Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton production through the use of cheap labor. In Peasants on Plantations Vincent C. Peloso analyzes the changing social and economic relationships governing the...
Laborers and Enslaved Workers
Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness that expressed itself across seemingly distinct...
Only One Place of Redress
African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment...